Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of gymnasium apparatus intended to exercise the muscles of the hand and forearm.
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At one time, a musical career tempted him irresistibly; every one but Schwarz — this finger-machine, this generator of living metronomes — believed that he could make a name for himself as a player of Chopin.
Maurice Guest 2003
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